Structure and Being

Contents

Preface to Struktur und Sein

Preface to Structure and Being

Key to Abbreviations and Logical/Mathematical Symbols

Introduction

1. Global Systematics: Determination of the Standpoint of the Structural-Systematic Philosophy

1.1 “A Theoretical Framework for a Systematic Philosophy”: the complexity of the concept and of its presentation

1.2 A first determination of systematic philosophy

1.3 Structure and being: a first characterization of the basic idea behind the structural-systematic philosophy

1.4 The idealized four-stage philosophical method

1.5. (Self-)grounding of systematic philosophy?

2. Systematics of Theoreticity. The Dimension of Philosophical Presentation

2.1 Theoreticity as a dimension of presentation

2.2 Language as the medium of presentation for theoreticity

2.3 The epistemic dimension as the domain of the accomplishment of theoreticity

2.4 The dimension of theory in the narrower sense

2.5 Fully determined theoreticity: first approach to a theory of truth

3. Systematics of Structure: The Fundamental Structures

3.1 What is the systematics of structure?

3.2 The three levels of fundamental structures

3.3 Theory of truth as explication (articulation) of the fully determinate connections among fundamental structures

4. World-Systematics. Theory of the Dimensions of the World

4.1 The concept of world

4.2 The “natural world”

4.3 The human world

4.4 The aesthetic world

4.5 The world as a whole

5. Comprehensive Systematics: The Theory of the Interconnection of All Structures and Dimensions of Being as Theory of Being As Such and As a Whole

5.1 The philosophical status of comprehensive systematics

5.2 Basic features of a theory of being as such and as a whole

5.3 Starting points for a theory of absolute being

6. Metasystematics: Theory of the Relatively Maximal Self-Determination of Systematic Philosophy

6.1 The status of metasystematics

6.2 Immanent metasystematics

6.3 External metasystematics

6.4 Self-determination, metasystematics, and the self-grounding of the structural-systematic philosophy

Works Cited

Index